Elon Musk - Mars colonization_2050 - sciencenerds

Elon Musk says he plans to send a million people to Mars by launching three-star ship rockets every day !

     creating a lot of jobs on Mars in a series of tweets on Thursday, Elon Musk shared few details for his plan to set up a city of about a million people on Mars by 2050. Elon Musk said he hoped to build 1000 starships fully reusable spaceships that space acts are developing in South Texas over a period of 10 years which equates to 100 starships per year.

Elon Musk added eventually the goal is to launch an average of  3 starships per day and make the trip to Mars available to anybody quote it needs to be such that anyone can go if they want with loans available for those who don't have money and quote Elon Musk wrote each starship would pack enough thrust to send more than a hundred tons about seven fully loaded school buses worth of mass and a hundred people into orbit at a time.

Elon Musk didn't specify what exactly the Rockets would need to carry to Mars but a lot of food water building materials tools and advanced life support systems are a given thus he estimated he would need a whole fleet of starships to build a permanent settlement, Elon Musk tweeted on Thursday quote megatons per year to orbit are needed for life to become multi-planetary and quote in total, 1000 starships could hypothetically transport about a hundred megatons of stuff to Mars, that's the volume musk has said he hopes to send to the Red Planet per year with each ship ferrying about a hundred passengers that would make for a total migration of about a hundred thousand people.

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Elon Musk also suggested he plan to capitalize on the brief windows of time that orbits of Earth and Mars aligned which come about on every month that allows spacecraft to spring off Earth's rotation and set themselves on a low fuel journey toward Mars.

 Elon Musk said he would take advantage of the opportunity by the quote "loading the Mars fleet into Earth orbit" then sending all, 1000 ships on a Mars-bound trajectory over that 30 day window every month a starship prototype could launch within 26 months.

 Elon Musk sent a new starship prototype may launch before the end of March quote first flight is hopefully, two to three months away and equal must tweet on December, the development of the prototype hit delays after an accidental explosion during a fuel tank pressurization test on November 20th, which blew the top off space axis first 16 story starship prototype, the company could build as many as  different prototypes before engineers settle on a 1.0 design to fly cargo and people the full starship launch system would also include a toy two-story rocket booster called super-heavy combined the whole thing would stand about  387 feet tall during launch a starship spaceship would ride atop the booster disconnect after the booster runs low on fuel and rocket it's way into orbit both parts are being designed to be fully reusable if that vision comes to pass.

 Elon Musk estimates the cost of a single launch would be just two million dollars that be hundreds of times cheaper than the current cost of launching a similar number of people an amount of cargo into space on any planned or existing rocket including SpaceX's own Falcon9 system.


~sciencefreak